Will Racism Ever End?

Will Racism Ever End?

            The author of the article entitled “Souls”, Mark Sawyer, talks about many things with one of them being Latin American Exceptionalism. This is saying that racism exists, but because of intermarriage and race mixing in countries such as Brazil, Columbia, and Cuba, racism isn't as bad as it used to be. The mixing of different races is also known as miscegenation. It is argued that incidents of racism and discrimination were all but eliminated before the Cuban revolution, and that there is no reason to believe that the process would not continue afterward. A political scientist named Jorge Dominguez mentioned that, “In Cuba for example, there is less discrimination than in the United States, but racism existed at one time and has improved in a linear fashion since the revolution.” He then states, “Integration was occurring before the revolution, which helped this process along by proving such universal social improvement as education and housing.” The article then goes on to state that many of the people who live in Cuba believe that the exile community seeks a retreat to a more socially and racially stratified past. It is a desire that some think may have been reinforced by their experience in the United States.

Personally, I think that racism will always be around, but that doesn't mean that it won’t get better. Racism is defined as, “The belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races.” Racism is something that has been around for a very long time now and has caused so many problems throughout history, but things have been improving since then and it seems as though it could get better. A problem that has occurred because of racism is one that most people are familiar with and that would be segregation in the United States during the 1950’s. Nowadays, more and more people are beginning to understand that racism is something that has caused problems like segregation in the past and that it is looked at in a negative way. People such as Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Frederick Douglas, Rosa Parks, and many more have fought so hard to put a stop towards racism and their efforts have led to success. Most of us no longer act the way we used to towards other races. Unfortunately, there are some people who can’t or have not adjusted to this social change, but with so many people now adjusted to the way things should be we can only continue doing what we have been doing to end racism in this world in hopes that one day it will no longer be a concern of ours. Working towards a society that is fully integrated is a grand, but achievable goal to pursue.

http://www.historyofcuba.com/history/racism.htm

http://www.coldwar.org/articles/50s/TheCubanRevolutionof1959.asp